No Sound :(
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 18:59:06 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 23:14 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Pulseaudio is a parasitic nuisance - but for some people it is a
> wonderous and magical thing. Oh, and also the adherents claim that the
> problem lies with Alsa and not with pulseaudio - naturally of
> course...... :-) .
The problem in this case was that something was turned off, under alsa,
that runs things before pulse can get to it. Again, without alsa, pulse
doesn't not go.
> Now, now that you have taken the first baby steps, and everything is
> working for you, :-) , by uninstalling pulseaudio you would have lost
> the System>Preferences>Sound control because this control is part of
> pulseaudio.
>
> Because I have a Creative 5.1 speaker system, I am able to control the
> volume of all the audio stuff I use (TV, YouTube, audio CDs, DVDs) via a
> volume/woofer control unit sitting on my desk close at hand and so I
> have no need for any other controls on the screen; as well, the apps I
> use - like vlc, xine, etc - have their own volume controls.
>
> However, if you want to have a volume control which you could access via
> System>Preferences>Sound where you can use the sliders to control volume
> then all you need to do is to go back to Synaptic Package Manager and
> re-install pulseaudio - just that one entry, pulseaudio, and you will
> get that menu in Preferences>Sound back to play with.
Ack! He also has to have pavucontrol installed, else pulse is borked.
Ric
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